Profiling English Lecturer Anxiety on Online Teaching During COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

To prevent and reduce the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the Indonesian government tasks education intuitions including higher education to implement teaching and learning in distance form. The sudden shifting of traditional class to full online cause anxiety for lecturers since they have a different personal and professional background. This research objects to find the existence of teaching anxiety and the source of anxiety suffered by English lecturers. This is a qualitative descriptive study that involved five English Education lectures of Sekolah Tinggi Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Media Nusantara Citra. Semi structured interview is implemented to collect data. The finding shows that all five lecturers experience online teaching anxiety. The Source of anxiety comes from the language proficiency, facility and resource, pedagogical competence, supervision, workload, and students’ factor. Further study related to online teaching anxiety is necessary to conduct since a study on this field is still limited.